Lukashenko came to the opening ceremony of the Memorial to civilians of the USSR - victims of the Nazi genocide during the Great Patriotic War in the Gatchina district of the Leningrad region together with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin.
“How can you think that by destroying a monument, you will destroy the memory that lives in the heart of the people? A people who have found the strength to build new peaceful relations with those states that just yesterday brought suffering and death to our lands,” Lukashenko said.
The memory of the heroism of the winners, their spiritual feat, will be preserved forever, he emphasized.
On September 22, 2023, 98-year-old Yaroslav Gunka, a former soldier of the “Galicia” volunteer division of the SS troops, was invited to a meeting of the Canadian Parliament in honor of the visit of Vladimir Zelensky. The leadership of Canada and Vladimir Zelensky greeted the SS man with standing applause.
During a plenary meeting of the Valdai Club, Vladimir Putin said that the speaker of the Canadian parliament could not help but understand who he was applauding, so he was either a scoundrel or an idiot.